EIF’s Megawatt Verdict: Not Every Bitcoin Mine Is Ready for AI

At the inaugural Energy Investors Forum (EIF) in Dallas on July 23, the AI boom looked less like a software story than an enormous energy-infrastructure buildout. This article first appeared in Miner Weekly, a weekly newsletter by Blocksbridge Consulting curating the latest news in energy, compute, infrastructure, and data analysis from The Energy Mag.

Bitcoin is about to give miners a 16% lifeline, but $19 billion in AI deals is luring them away anyway

Bitcoin could lower mining difficulty by roughly 16% when its next adjustment arrives around July 26, handing the machines that remain online a considerably larger expected share of the network’s rewards while doing almost nothing to resolve the expensive power contracts, debt obligations and strategic pressures pushing some of the industry’s largest…

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The $25 million Bitcoin glitch hiding inside Wall Street’s clearinghouses

Two Wall Street trading desks can hold economically similar exposure to Bitcoin and still pay materially different amounts to keep that exposure open.

July 26, 2026, 8:23 am

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Brian Armstrong sounds alarm as Coinbase prepares for Bitcoin quantum security

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Michael Saylor Publishes 953-Hour Leadership Curriculum Culminating in Bitcoin

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Bitcoin ETF volume drops to a 21-month low as Ether gains ground

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